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A wooden bathtub evokes the couple's love of Japanese design and the primary suite "feels like a Japanese onsen, or spa,

A custom vanity and medicine cabinets lines the wall, and a pocket door leads to the walk-in closet.

SHED created a streamlined built-in bar and tech storage where the fireplace used to be, and reoriented the living room to face the new fireplace. The new orientation makes it so you can sit on the couch and see the fireplace and Mount Saint Helens (on a clear day) at the same time.

A see-through entry hall joins the living areas with a bedroom wing.

Instead of designing a completely open plan, Berg separated the public rooms with a freestanding fireplace wall made of Mutual Materials bricks in Coal Creek. An Emmy sectional by Egg Collective for Design Within Reach faces a Lars chair from Room & Board

“It’s a human-scaled house. It’s not intimidating or fussy. It feels good,” explains architect Solomon Berg.

Hilary and her husband, Jimmy, opted for a functional, restrained material palette. In the dining room, Rejuvenation pendants hang above a table by Hedge House and chairs from Hay.

“Everything needed to be approachable and simple,” says Hilary. “The house reflects who we are.”

SHED embraced the angled corners with custom cabinetry. According to Hale, the inspiration images that the couple chose were “less American Midwest farmhouse, and more contemporary Scandinavian farmhouse,” which inspired the design team to consult Scandinavian farm layouts for the master plan.

The main floor plan was opened up, so the living, dining, and kitchen flow into each other, and all can partake of the scenery. “The interiors feel very calm and the house is small enough that the open plan doesn't seem too large,” says Hale. La Cantina doors now lead to the protected porch. White oak was used for the flooring throughout.

Cedar siding is combined with black metal cladding that spills down from the metal roof, all providing maintenance-free durability.

The upstairs master bathroom is teeming with light thanks to its skylight and windows, and looks more luxurious than it is thanks to marble-like ceramic tile and walnut-faced plywood cabinets.

When construction was temporarily delayed, architect and homeowner set to work designing built-in cabinetry for every space, including the living room.

Tight confines meant only a few feet of foyer before giving way to the stairway and kitchen, yet the small footprint (and a glass door) helped fill the home with natural light.

The home's interlocking twin volumes—addressing street and nature view, respectively— were inspired by Louis Kahn's Fisher House in Pennsylvania.

For the backsplash, the homeowner chose ceramic tiles in a honeycomb pattern by Portland-based Clayhaus to compliment the walnut-faced cabinetry.

The great room opens onto a wood deck cantilevered over the hillside, with glass pocket doors able to fold away for indoor-outdoor living.

A wall of slatted wood facing the street masks an exterior ADU stairway and an upstairs wall of glass that glows at night.